Indian government is promoting on large scale jatropha cultivation for biodiesel...
It's targeting 13.5 million hectares of "wasteland” for jatropha cultivation by 2012...
Its success comes from the fact that farmers can grow it without irrigation on poor soils in semi arid regions...
Also its oil yield is from 1 to 10(in the best conditions) tonnes per hectare...
Also it would create forests where there is not vegetation...
The problem is that it needs a lot of hours of labour (harvest) that would increase oil price in our nations...
What do you think about?